Mario Batali Quotes

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
Mario Batali

Evening, Eyes, Try

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
Mario Batali

Happiness, Good, Hard

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
Mario Batali

Food, Passion, Everything

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
Mario Batali

Kids, Listen, Taught

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Mario Batali

Family, Bring, Eating

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
Mario Batali

Family, Greatest, Door

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
Mario Batali

Different, Sometimes, Sense

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
Mario Batali

Family, Find, Joy

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
Mario Batali

Good, Money, Taken

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
Mario Batali

Food, Different, Working

You have to live life to its full chorizo.
Mario Batali

Life, Live, Full

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
Mario Batali

Wedding, Single, Reading

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
Mario Batali

Society, Live, Living

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
Mario Batali

Good, Food, Away

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
Mario Batali

Beauty, Best, Food

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
Mario Batali

Food, Hate, Done

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.
Mario Batali

America, Old, Getting

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
Mario Batali

Food, Everyone, Makes

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
Mario Batali

Change, Food, Everything

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
Mario Batali

Time, Wife, Two

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.
Mario Batali

Great, Dream, Teach

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
Mario Batali

Media, Using, Tail

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
Mario Batali

Book, Next, Cooking

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
Mario Batali

Happen, Eyes, Off

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
Mario Batali

End, Everything, Reason

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: September 9, 1960

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